John Francis, manager of W.J.T. Clarke?s run at Woodlands, is said to have shot six or seven Aborigines. Clarke later wrote that the Aborigines had been ?defiant? and had killed numbers of his sheep, ?destroying them wantonly and slaughtering them for their support?, but as historian A.G.L. Shaw points out, ?Francis was a man who often had trouble with Aborigines, and as he was later killed by a white shepherd, it is possible he was hot-tempered and ?defiant? himself.? W.J.T. Clarke later said ?a number of blacks, I am sorry to say, were shot?. Critchett lists the names of seven Aborigines who were shot by Francis.

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